| FORTESCUE | Hugh ___, Whig politician who as Viscount Ebrington was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1839-41 (9) |
| SHELBURNE | William Petty, 2nd Earl of ___ , Whig prime minister during the reign of George III (9) |
| EARLGREY | Title used by the UK prime minister of 1830-34, also known as Viscount Howick (4,4) |
| SUBALTERN | British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain, typically a lieutenant of any grade (9) |
| ANDYNICOL | Scottish international scrum- half who, as captain of Bath, was the first British player to lift the Heineken Cup (4,5) |
| BOOKSTALL | Reserves, old soldiers and Lord Lieutenant making a stand (9) |
| STREAKERS | People who, as a joke, run quickly through a public place wearing no clothes (9) |
| TALLORDER | It's a lot to expect to start a lord lieutenant on command (4,5) |
| GREYSTOKE | Tarzan was Lord - |
| BRIANBORU | see 13dn, High King of Ireland from 1002-14 |
| MORTIMER | William _, 1st Earl of Bath, British Whig politician who was George I's Secretary at War 1714-17 (8) |
| VICEROY | Governor of a country who rules as representative of sovereign, lord lieutenant in Ireland (7) |
| LORDMACKAYOFCLASHFERN | Title of the now retired Scottish advocate who was lord chancellor for 10 years from 1987 (4,6,2,9) |
| CHARLES | Whig politician who was the first British Foreign Secretary (7,5,3) |
| JAMES | Whig politician who was the first British Foreign Secretary (7,5,3) |
| FOX | Whig politician who was the first British Foreign Secretary (7,5,3) |
| PITT | William ___ (1708 - 78), Whig politician who was Prime Minister (1766 - 68) (4) |
| SHERIDAN | Richard Brinsley -; Irish satirist, playwright and Whig politician who wrote The Rivals and The School for Scandal (8) |
| GREY | Whig politician whose term as prime minister saw the passage of the Reform Act and the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (4) |
| DIONYSUS | This child from Persephone and Zeus, who as an embryo was swallowed by Zeus and placed in body of Semele. |
